Quote Originally Posted by hdhntr View Post
it's personal choice. When watching G3 sportsman Billy the main guide at Reelfoot lake who is always entertaining with Scott mentioned that he and the other guides prefer the 8 inch fish to eat as they are crisper.

I do different things with different sizes. On my home lake there is a huge population of crappie and 30 fish limit and not many folks fish for them. So I will keep a lot of 8 inchers and will cook them whole just cutting heads off and scaling and then broiling or baking and they are really excellent and a different taste than a bigger filet you fried up and throw back the 14 inchers and bigger.
I still have to try scaling a couple and cooking whole. I can't imagine how many pounds of crappie fillets I have eaten over the past 44 years but I've never cooked one whole

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